this thing, I swear, is going to be the end of me... nobody locally wants a mostly-working decade-old boat-anchor of a macbook pro so I'm stuck with it I guess.
Anyway. It's the 2.4GHz flavour with 3GB of RAM... because the second 2GB stick just died.
What was happening is, I installed Leopard on it then followed the Bootcamp Assistant, partitioned my hard drive then installed Windows XP SP3... then I ran the utility on Windows XP and it was stuck for a moment and then it threw a BSoD at me. I went about installing the drivers individually and I think I've found the issue: the Broadcom WiFi driver is the one that causes the BSoD. My macbook has a Broadcom WiFi module, which should be supported by the same driver that crashes the system. Every other driver works fine by the way. I should probably find the driver elsewhere and install it since everything else seems to be working...
I downloaded some other Bootcamp Assistant programs for the Windows side but everything over 2.x that I've tried seems to just not like Windows XP. Leopard came with Bootcamp Assistant 2.0 so which version would work with Windows XP and not cause a BSoD?
I'd like to use what I've got, since for some God-forsaken reason I can't manage to get 10.6 working. Unless it's possible to get XP working on 10.10 or 10.5, I'm not going to bother, because I currently have access to a real bad connection and those are the two installers I've got.
I suppose I'm also curious as to WHY this particular driver brings everything to a screeching halt.
wifi isn't even necessary, it's just going to be annoying without it.
Anyway. It's the 2.4GHz flavour with 3GB of RAM... because the second 2GB stick just died.
What was happening is, I installed Leopard on it then followed the Bootcamp Assistant, partitioned my hard drive then installed Windows XP SP3... then I ran the utility on Windows XP and it was stuck for a moment and then it threw a BSoD at me. I went about installing the drivers individually and I think I've found the issue: the Broadcom WiFi driver is the one that causes the BSoD. My macbook has a Broadcom WiFi module, which should be supported by the same driver that crashes the system. Every other driver works fine by the way. I should probably find the driver elsewhere and install it since everything else seems to be working...
I downloaded some other Bootcamp Assistant programs for the Windows side but everything over 2.x that I've tried seems to just not like Windows XP. Leopard came with Bootcamp Assistant 2.0 so which version would work with Windows XP and not cause a BSoD?
I'd like to use what I've got, since for some God-forsaken reason I can't manage to get 10.6 working. Unless it's possible to get XP working on 10.10 or 10.5, I'm not going to bother, because I currently have access to a real bad connection and those are the two installers I've got.
I suppose I'm also curious as to WHY this particular driver brings everything to a screeching halt.
wifi isn't even necessary, it's just going to be annoying without it.